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Cotton (Gossypium herbaceum Linnaeus) may have been domesticated around 5000 BCE in eastern Sudan near the Middle Nile Basin region, where cotton cloth was being produced. [10] The cultivation of cotton and the knowledge of its spinning and weaving in Meroë reached a high level in the 4th century BC. The export of textiles was one of the ...
Cotton (Gossypium herbaceum Linnaeus) may have been domesticated 5000 BC in eastern Sudan near the Middle Nile Basin region, where cotton cloth was being produced. [21] Around the 4th century BC, the cultivation of cotton and the knowledge of its spinning and weaving in Meroë reached a high level. The export of textiles was one of the sources ...
Rye may have been cultivated earlier, but this claim remains controversial. [5] Regardless, rye's spread from Southwest Asia to the Atlantic was independent of the Neolithic founder crop package. [6] Rice was domesticated in China by 6200 BC [7] with earliest known cultivation from 5700 BC, followed by mung, soy and azuki beans. Rice was also ...
The total land area of cotton cultivation was reported as 2,950,000 hectares (7,300,000 acres) during the 2014–15 growing season. Generally, small farmers with landholdings less than 5 hectares (12 acres) in size form the largest group of growers; [ 9 ] farmers holding less than 2 hectares (4.9 acres) account for 50% of the farms.
Gossypium hirsutum, also known as upland cotton or Mexican cotton, is the most widely planted species of cotton in the world. Globally, about 90% of all cotton production is of cultivars derived from this species. [2] In the United States, the world's largest exporter of cotton, it constitutes approximately 95% of all cotton production.
The first cotton mills were established in ... managed credit and supplies and cultivated mass ... The modern Indian mechanised textile industry was born in ...
Cotton became a major plantation crop after 1800 in the "Black Belt," and throughout the region from North Carolina in an arc through Texas where the climate allowed for cotton cultivation. [3] Apart from the tobacco and rice plantations, the great majority of farms were subsistence, producing food for the family and some for trade and taxes.
Chandrakant T. Patel, [1] (11 July 1917 – 25 December 1990) was a cotton scientist, who developed the first commercial cotton hybrid, known as Hybrid-4 (Sankar-4), in 1970, [2] [3] which was later cultivated commercially in the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra.